From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 00:41:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA19623 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 May 1995 00:41:32 -0700 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA19606 for ; Mon, 29 May 1995 00:39:23 -0700 Received: from freebsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25536; Mon, 29 May 95 09:38:58 +0200 Received: by freebsd.first.gmd.de (IAA22208); Mon, 29 May 1995 08:42:21 +0200 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199505290642.IAA22208@freebsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: olwm To: cihat@dirac.localnet.com (Cihat Ozhasoglu) Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 08:42:21 +0159 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Cihat Ozhasoglu" at May 28, 95 05:06:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 829 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have ftped olwm and olvwm (olvwm-4.1.tgz) from ftp.cdrom.com. This is > supposedly the latest version from the "/packages" directory. However, > when I type olwm to start OpenLook, I get an error saying "Cannot connect > to NULL DISPLAY." How can I fix this problem? I tried using /dev/ttyv0 > and a few others but nothing seems to work. olwm is only a window-manager. You need to have already X-windows running. It doesn't start up X-windows. If you have set up X correctly to match your video-card and your display, try a "xinit" and then type in the "xterm" that pops up "olwm" to start up the window manager. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe